I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.

It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier for a director to be out. The public is not going to see a movie because the director is gay or straight. It's maybe a little harder for an actor or actress because of, you know, the love roles and stuff. But gay people have been impersonating heteros in the movies for years. So, hopefully, that is becoming less of an issue. I think it would have been really great if a gay person had played a gay person. That's brave!

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.